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  • Artist Info: The Snow Queen<br />
    by Jeannine Hall Gailey<br />
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    You tell yourself he only left you for her<br />
    <br />
    because of the wicked shard of glass in his eye,<br />
    <br />
    but the truth is, every man wants an ice princess.<br />
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    The truth is, you're too easy to get used to —<br />
    <br />
    <br />
    your sloppy warmth, the heat from your skin<br />
    <br />
    fresh from the garden — it's too much for him.<br />
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    He'd rather marvel at her tedious snowflakes,<br />
    <br />
    caress her frosted hair, bask in that cold gaze,<br />
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    <br />
    that veneer of symmetry. So you wander<br />
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    around town like an idiot, forgetting<br />
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    even your shoes. The boys there<br />
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    are all still in awe of her. "Did you see<br />
    <br />
    <br />
    that thing she was driving?" they keep asking.<br />
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    You set off to bring him back, not thinking<br />
    <br />
    you are the last person he wants to see.<br />
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    "He's trapped in that ice castle," you murmur,<br />
    <br />
    <br />
    "He needs to be rescued." Dogged, you follow<br />
    <br />
    the tiny shards of glass, and their sparkle.<br />
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    And when you finally find him, dark with cold<br />
    <br />
    from her brutal kisses, he doesn't even<br />
    <br />
    <br />
    recognize you. You stop blaming the shard<br />
    <br />
    in his eye; how can you rescue a man<br />
    <br />
    whose heart, transfixed by skeletal crystal,<br />
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    craves the bruising of frost?<br />
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    <br />
    <br />
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